Collinsville
Grad At Equator
Jan.
25, 2007
Emily
Wright's Galapagos "Class"
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University Of Miami Senior's
Inter-Session Course
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Emily's trip to the
Galapagos Islands included a few days on the mainland of South America
in Equador. While we were fighting a sleet storm in Collinsville she was
sweating at the equator.-- Ted (Dad) |
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The sea
lions were great fun to play and swim with.
White
tip sharks sleeping on the bottom.
Several
huge manta rays swam by during Emily's dive at the Galapagos Islands ... one
with a wing span of about 15 feet.
An
octopus with a fish swimming over it's eye.
Emily
said this was the biggest school of fish she had ever seen. They would totally
wrap around her and almost block out the light and the other divers.
This
was Emily's favorite tortoise at the Darwin Research Center on the Galapagos
Islands.
There
really are birds called blue footed boobies.
Emily
was able to feed finches out of her hand at a lady's house where they are fed
daily. These birds are descendants of the birds Charles Darwin studied while
he was working on his theory of evolution there.
A marine
iguana with Sally Light-foot crabs.
Emily
on the "wall of tears" built by prisioners at a former penal colony.
Emily
(a marine biology major) and her University of Miami classmates on the Galapagos
trip.
Iguana
walking the beach.
Emily
on top of Volcano Chica.
I've
included a map for those (like me) that had no idea where these islands were.
I did learm just a bit in conversations with Emily as she had to read two books
on the islands and their ecology while she was in Collinsville briefly in December.
Thank you to all those who ask how daughter Emily is doing and say they look
forward to her photos. She is now back in Coral Gables (Florida) for "normal"
classes. -- Ted Wright